Genetic Connections - A Guide to Documenting Your Individual and Family Health History (Hardcover)

An interactive resource no family should be without to live longer and healthier lives
-- Record accurate, readily accessible, personal health records.
-- Document family health history and construct a family health pedigree.
-- Learn about hereditary diseases that have occurred in family members.

The most complete guide available for recording family health information by creating a family health pedigree: a single-paged graphic representation of family members and health data. Shared with your doctor, this pedigree can help identify health risks so that preventive measures can begin.

"Excellent information on prenatal influences, medical records access, and adoptees' rights to medical information...gives the reader the wherewithal to produce a complete health history...this guide is recommended..". -- Library Journal

"Logically organized, lucidly written, this is a most useful addition to health self-care literature". -- ALA Booklist

"...written with the family in mind...comprehensive yet readable...a good, basic medical reference book for the family bookshelf". -- Alliance of Genetic Support Groups